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<blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 3662492" data-attributes="member: 1325">Then you have hardly restrained me at all, merely interjected your arm between my goal and myself. Hardly a violent action upon my person.No, because this is not a discussion of the physical, but the metaphysical. Thus your objections can neither prove nor disprove the case. Evil cannot be measured by mundane means. I assure you. Therefore any attempt to introduce physics into this discussion is futile.No. The morality of a specific act, as performed in the physical world is the sum of a large number of factors. However, the concept of an act, in and of itself possesses a certain inherent morality.It is possible to have the following statements &quot;Slavery is Evil&quot;, &quot;Jeffersson is a good man&quot; &amp; &quot;Jefferson owns slaves&quot; all be true at the same time. Not really. Because we are still unable to provide any &quot;proof&quot;.Degrees of evil? Isn't it better to persuade (Diplomacy check) rather than Intimidate or Dominate? Why do Democracies value Public Debate? Referendums? Why bother? Highly inefficient and dangerously populistic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="green slime, post: 3662492, member: 1325"] Then you have hardly restrained me at all, merely interjected your arm between my goal and myself. Hardly a violent action upon my person. No, because this is not a discussion of the physical, but the metaphysical. Thus your objections can neither prove nor disprove the case. Evil cannot be measured by mundane means. I assure you. Therefore any attempt to introduce physics into this discussion is futile. No. The morality of a specific act, as performed in the physical world is the sum of a large number of factors. However, the concept of an act, in and of itself possesses a certain inherent morality. It is possible to have the following statements "Slavery is Evil", "Jeffersson is a good man" & "Jefferson owns slaves" all be true at the same time. Not really. Because we are still unable to provide any "proof". Degrees of evil? Isn't it better to persuade (Diplomacy check) rather than Intimidate or Dominate? Why do Democracies value Public Debate? Referendums? Why bother? Highly inefficient and dangerously populistic. [/QUOTE]

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